You snooze, you lose — and miss Hughes
Those grand plans I laid out last week — four games in four ballparks in four days — never came to be. I made it halfway, unable to raise myself out of bed on Tuesday morning to hit the road…
Those grand plans I laid out last week — four games in four ballparks in four days — never came to be. I made it halfway, unable to raise myself out of bed on Tuesday morning to hit the road…
Everyone’s hitting the road. Two of my co-workers leave tomorrow morning on a four-city baseball tour through the Midwest, while a friend of mine is off on a longer 10-day journey covering ballfields from Cleveland to Minneapolis to St. Louis….
It hasn’t happened in the minors since 1961. The Pacific Coast League hasn’t seen it since 1933. And the major leagues haven’t experienced it since 1941. It’s a .400 season, and Rick Short of the New Orleans Zephyrs is in…
The fans in Washington have taken to the Nationals as everyone — outside of Peter Angelos — expected. You’ll even see some Expos caps in the crowd at RFK Stadium, as I did on Saturday, a sign that those who…
Up in Connecticut, the Norwich Navigators have decided that since half the minor-league teams in the country are either relocating or redesigning their logos that they, too, need a new identity. And they’re going all-out, planning a new nickname and…
Last week, it was Class A … First pitch in Lakewood, April 7, 2005 Yesterday, it was Triple-A … A beautiful day in Scranton, April 10, 2005 Today, it’s Shea. Thursday, it’s RFK. Lots of posts and game recaps coming…
There was a surprising press release put out by the Lake Elsinore Storm late this week. It announced that the Southern California team, an affiliate of the San Diego Padres, was changing its name to the Anaheim/Los Angeles/San Diego Storm…
Tom Verducci’s outstanding first-person account of his five days spent as a player with the Toronto Blue Jays is a fascinating look into a major-league clubhouse. Spring training is definitely the time to do it. Had he managed to gain…
One of my few photos from the 2004 Futures Game BP session. I don’t know if it came from knowing his name when he was in the South Atlantic League in 2002, when I was covering the Lakewood BlueClaws, but…